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AmigaOS Twenty-Five Years of Check-Ins Visualized

Posted by samzenpus on from the blast-from-the-past dept.

the_arrow writes "As a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Amiga computer, Hyperion Entertainment has made a video using the Gource CVS visualization software showing a time-compressed version of 25 years of Amiga development, from the early days of AmigaOS 1.0 to the present. Personal commentary added by one of the current core full-time AmigaOS developers, Hans-Joerg Frieden (a.k.a. 'Rogue')."

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  1. Re:Last update by aliquis · · Score: 2, Informative

    It has had quite a few of updates. And I guess many parts of AmigaOS 4 was actually improvements.

    However I find it hard to consider anything beyond 3.1 worth much care from my side. Sadly.

    Ignoring the A\Box stuff best chance it had of a resurrection was probably around the 1999 days when Gateway-Amiga wanted to build a fresh OS upon QNX Neutrino and Photon.

    The Linux-switch and much more the virtual machine Tao-Group Elate stuff for Linux and WinCE was major failures and idiocy.

    To try to upgrade and modernize a 20+ year old OS which have seen little reason to improve since the mid-80s and try to keep backwards compatibly at the same time instead of a complete rewrite starting of from scratch with the best OS ideas around is almost as stupid since it won't work. But atleast it gives the latest Amiga-stuff for the people still around.

  2. Not Amiga by AmigaHeretic · · Score: 2, Informative

    These guys are just trying to re-write history. They don't even have a right to use the name Amiga. Somehow they got an agreement from these other crooks to use the name "Amigaos". They have no legal right to call anything an Amiga.

    Even the hardware companies that are making "PPC" hardware have no license to use the word "Amiga". All the machines are "AmigaOne" which is a trademark from a company named Eyetech in 2001 and not related to "Amiga" at all.

    Nothing Amiga to see here people.

    1. Re:Not Amiga by commodore64_love · · Score: 3, Informative

      I don't know how you can be called +5 informative when you didn't even answer the question: WHO has the right to the name Amiga?

      As far as I can tell, it's owned by the present company that developed the OS 4.x and will soon be released an Amiga X1000.

      --
      "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
    2. Re:Not Amiga by AmigaHeretic · · Score: 2, Informative

      The company you are talking about uses the word "Amigaos".

      After they're lawsuit with "Amiga" Inc. they are careful now to never used the word "Amiga". You can find much of their old product/news items use to use the word "Amiga Operating System", but like I said, after the lawsuit they are very careful always using "Amigaos" and never "Amiga"

      The "Amigaos" word that has never been trademarked nor copyrighted as you can see if you do a search.

      "Amiga" is owned by a company named Amiga Inc. They hardly do anything as you can see by their blank webpage Amiga.com

    3. Re:Not Amiga by AmigaHeretic · · Score: 2, Informative

      released an Amiga X1000.

      Again, the company making an the A1-X1000 (http://www.a-eon.com/) has no right to word Amiga. The company is a partner with the guy that trademarked "AmigaOne" and so I do believe they use that.

      However you will notice that company never calls their computer an "Amiga".

      These are people that think the Amiga name has some value and are trying to confuse people that they are releasing stuff with the Amiga name when they are not.

      Think about that. It's lame enough to release something Amiga that is just modern motherboard. Yet, these people are trying to release a motherboard AND pretend to be an Amiga. WTF??